From today’s editorials: Information about who owns handguns should remain public. _______________ Let’s see. New York has an on-time state budget in place, for a welcome change. No fiscal follies this year. Where, then, might state legislators turn for political mischief? Sen. Joe Griffo, R-Rome, is ready, surely, with his unhelpful answer. How about tampering […]
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Concealed carry laws do not increase crime rates, as gun opponents suggest, says Steve Chapman in Reason. What the statistics demonstrate is something else entirely — that people who legally carry concealed weapons do so responsibly, he says.
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From today’s editorials: Even conservative icon Ronald Reagan appreciated the need for reasonable gun control. Yet enforcement remains spotty, good bills languish, and bad ones continue to be pushed.. _____________________ Thirty years ago this week, America almost lost a president when a mentally ill gunman tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan. John Hinckley, convinced that becoming […]
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When it comes to toy guns, says Jonathan Turley in USA Today, “kids seem a lot more sophisticated than their parents. They know it’s just a game.” Turley cautions that “toy guns are no more the cause of violence than toy kitchen sets are the cause of obesity.”
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Today’s editorial: Will it take another massacre for states to follow federal gun regulations? (scroll to the end for a report on state compliance with requirement to submit names of people who are prohibited from owning firearms to a national database). ________________________ Almost four years after a mentally ill gunman killed 32 people on the […]
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In the wake of the Tucson shooting, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and Chris Cox of the National Rifle Association square off in US News & World Report over the question of high-capacity ammunition magazines for guns. See the arguments, pro and con.
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“Stop the Violence” is a series of photographs of human bones by Francois Robert. An already- cheduled reception for this exhibit opened its doors in Tucson on Jan. 8, the same day of the mass shooting. Go to Toxel and check out the images.
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As a gun owner, Jon Meacham makes clear on PBS that he doesn’t want to ban guns, even pistols. But, he says, high capacity magazines have only one purpose: to end as many lives as possible, quickly. This, he says, serves no “sporting” interest.
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Consider the Glock, “treasured by thugs, gun enthusiasts and police departments,” and owned by Jared Loughner and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Marshall Kilduff takes a look at the brand’s popularity and concludes it isn’t likely to suffer from the Tucson shootings.
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If polls are any guide, gun owners have no worries about tighter regulations in the wake of the shootings in Arizona. A Quinnipiac poll out this morning found that most voters don’t think gun control had anything to do with the massacre, nor, for that matter, did heated rhetoric. A plurality (40 percent) doubted anything […]
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